Lesson Overview

An Animal Life
Order Monarchs – Allow 6 weeks for Delivery

Lesson Overview Time Other Things to Know

1  Pre Test 30 min Book: Under One Rock
 Prediction- Animals in school yard 30 min
 Outside Looking at Animals 60 min

2  Get Animals- Build Classroom Habitat 60 min

3  Observe School Yard Animals 30 min *Make Word Sort Card
 Introduce Venn Diagram 30 min Set
4  Observing Worms 40 min Book: An Earth Worm’s
Life

5  Eggs Start Life Cycle 45 min *Need 8 Hard Boiled

 Life Cycles Pictures 45 min Eggs
6  Monarch (larva observation) 30 min Lesson 6, 7, and 8 need
 Larva Physical Characteristic Chart 30 min to be done within 2
weeks, during caterpillar
stage
7  What Kids Like to Eat 30 min
 Student Experiment- What do 30 min
caterpillars eat?
 Summary Discussion 30 min
8  Getting Ready for Pupa Stage 30 min
 Adding Info to Life Cycle 30 min
9  Draw Habitat Poster 30 min Lesson 9, 10, 11 need to
 Summary Discussion 30 min be done while waiting
for butterfly stage, 2
weeks

Book: In the Woods:

Who’s Been Here?
10  Food Chains 40 min
11  Features & Functions to get Food 30 min
 Shark & Fish Game 30 min
12  Adult Butterfly-Body Part Functions 30 min
 Venn Diagram – Caterpillar/Butterfly 30 min
13  Life Cycle Review 30 min
 Life Cycle Story Game 30 min
14  Adults and Babies 40 min Book: An Animals Life
15  Comparing Themselves to Other 30 min
Animals- Venn Diagram
 Return School Yard Animals 30 min
 Post Test 30 min